ONS · nationality: British

Emigration: British

2025

246,000people

Emigration for British totalled 246,000 people in the period to 2025, down 2.4% (6,000) on the period before.

  1. ONS dataset
  2. 1
  3. Emigration
  4. column “YE Dec 25 P
  5. 246000 per period
  6. published 21 May 2026

Year ending June 2012 to 2025

Emigration by nationality: 2012 to 2025CoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour0100k200k2015202020252012: 151,000 people · published 21 May 20262013: 157,000 people · published 21 May 20262014: 161,000 people · published 21 May 20262015: 151,000 people · published 21 May 20262016: 163,000 people · published 21 May 20262017: 164,000 people · published 21 May 20262018: 147,000 people · published 21 May 20262019: 153,000 people · published 21 May 20262020: 130,000 people · published 21 May 20262021: 233,000 people · published 21 May 20262022: 247,000 people · published 21 May 20262023: 255,000 people · published 21 May 20262024: 257,000 people · published 21 May 20262025: 246,000 people · published 21 May 2026

Published valueProvisional or revisedLatestOne point a year is drawn; the source publishes overlapping year-ending figures, and every one is in the history table and CSVShaded bands: governments (see labels)Hover or use arrow keys to read a value

What this measures

The estimated number of people who left the UK intending to be away for at least 12 months, over a 12-month period, split into the three nationality groups ONS publishes in Table 1 - British, EU+ (EU countries plus EFTA and associated microstates), and non-EU+.

Individual nationalities (ONS publishes only the three groups in this table), country of birth, or where in the UK people settled.

Source

Dataset
Long-term international migration, provisional
Release
Year ending December 2025, published 21 May 2026 · sha256 254a57a0d1e30c40
All values
Emigration by nationality